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Axe

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.

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Chop 76% connected

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Hack 76% connected

A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

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Terminate 76% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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Hatchet 76% connected

A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.

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Poleax 76% connected

Alt. of Poleaxe

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Poleaxe 76% connected

Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers,…

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Ax 74% connected

Alt. of Axe

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Ax 74% connected

Alt. of Axe

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Blade 70% connected

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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Haft 70% connected

A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; t…

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Helve 70% connected

The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.

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Ax 92% connected

Alt. of Axe

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